THE ELECTRIC CANVAS is an Australian company expert in the specialised field of large scale projection.

We are a complete solution provider for projection projects of any scale. Through the use of high-powered digital projectors and our PIGI filmstrip projectors our artists, designers and technicians can accurately apply light and art to structures and surfaces for a wide variety of applications.

"Christmas in July"

Sovereign Hill, Ballarat

27 June to 12 July 2015

"Christmas in July"

Sovereign Hill, Ballarat

27 June to 12 July 2015

"Terminator Genisys" activation

Luna Park, Sydney

26 & 27 June 2015

"Space" - Vivid Path to the Future

The Quadrangle, University of Sydney

25 to 31 May 2015

Anzac Day projections 2015

Australian War Memorial, Canberra

22 to 26 April 2015

Enlighten Canberra 2015

Questacon

27 February to 08 March 2015

Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 2015

City of Sydney

22 February 2015

White Night Melbourne 2015

Flinders Street Station, Melbourne

21 February 2015

"Nouméa Féerie"

Noumea, New Caledonia

18 to 27 December 2014

"Gold Lotto City Hall Light Spectacular"

Brisbane City Hall

12 to 24 December 2014

"Colour Me Brisbane"

G20 Cultural Celebrations, Brisbane

24 October to 16 November 2014

"Out of Place"

SIGNAL Festival, Prague

16 to 19 October 2014

TEC News

For the second year running, The Electric Canvas has transformed the buildings along Main Street in Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, with mapped architectural projections set to a custom soundtrack during the museum's "Christmas in July" event.

The magnificent Quadrangle at the University of Sydney was brought to life with projection mapping at "Vivid Path to the Future", featuring a collection of works by students, staff and artists. Joe Crossley, curator of the event, invited The Electric Canvas as one of the featured artists to create an original work for the showcase.

“Lighting The Sails” on the Sydney Opera House is undoubtedly the highlight of Vivid Sydney. The Electric Canvas is proud to have delivered the Sydney Opera House projections and provided the creative workflow support to the guest artists every year since the inception of Vivid in 2009. This year we also delivered an exhibition of digital artworks by this year's Lighting The Sails artist, Universal Everything, that took place in the Opera House's Western Foyer and above the staircase leading to the box office.

Enlighten Canberra entered its fifth year in 2015 and reinforced its place as a highlight in the capital's and Australia's cultural calendar. The Electric Canvas once again took to the stunning buildings of the Parliamentary Triangle with a collection of fun and thought-provoking projections.

The City of Sydney welcomed the Year of the Sheep with the highly anticipated Twilight Parade winding its way through the city streets. The Electric Canvas has created spectacular architectural projections for Sydney's Chinese New Year Twilight Parade since 2011, and this year was no exception.

For the third year running, The Electric Canvas created breathtaking architectural projections for White Night Melbourne's aptly named Wonderland precinct, which paid tribute to the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's literary classic, "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland".

The Electric Canvas was invited by the City of Noumea to develop a Christmas program that united New Caledonians in the city’s central park in a way that had not been seen in decades. People of all ages and from all walks of life came together to experience the magic of Christmas through a unique program of animated projections and lighting displays at this highly successful public event.

The majestic façade and clock tower of Brisbane City Hall has been brought to life once again with the colourful characters from The Nutcracker for this year's "Gold Lotto City Hall Light Spectacular" Christmas projections.

The Electric Canvas is proud to be presenting several projection works for “Colour Me Brisbane” as part of the G20 Cultural Celebrations showcasing the state of Queensland in the three-week lead up to the summit of global leaders in Brisbane.

The Electric Canvas was invited by the organisers of the SIGNAL Festival in Prague to create an original projection work for this rapidly growing event's second year. We created "Out of Place" onto the façade of the Municipal Library, based on the six statues lining the building's balcony.

The Electric Canvas was delighted to create a stunning display of projections onto eleven of Sovereign Hill's buildings along Main Street accompanied by a custom soundscape during their two week long "Christmas in July" event.

The Star - Sydney's premier casino, hotel and entertainment venue - participated in VIVID Sydney for the first time this year. The Electric Canvas came onboard to create and deliver a stunning animated projection onto the façade of the Astral Tower for this exciting event.

Inspired by the ANMM's current "Whale Season" exhibitions, The Electric Canvas was commissioned to create a captivating animated projection with bespoke score for the museum to present at this year's VIVID festival.

Canberra's ever-popular Enlighten festival invited The Electric Canvas back for a fourth straight year to decorate the city's landmark buildings with stunning original projections and collaborative works with some of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists.

As an official production partner of this year's White Night Melbourne, The Electric Canvas created a magnificent tableau of projections along Flinders Street as well as a captivating animated display curated by festival creative director, Andrew Walsh, on the façade of the National Gallery of Victoria.

The City of Sydney rang in the Year of the Horse at the annual Chinese New Year Twilight Parade, with stunning projections created by The Electric Canvas onto four building façades along the parade route.

We were delighted to be appointed by Brisbane Marketing to create the "Gold Lotto City Hall Light Spectacular" this past Christmas. The show opened on 13 December to a tremendous crowd in King George Square and ran every night until Christmas Eve.

For the ninth consecutive year, The Electric Canvas transformed the George Street façade of Sydney Town Hall with stunning architectural projections for Christmas. For 2013 we also created a fun and entertaining animated projection show with custom soundtrack on the side of the Town Hall at Sydney Square. Click below to read more and view the show highlights.

We are thrilled to have received a total of 3 trophies at the Australian Event Awards and the Australian Production Design Guild Awards last night. It really is an honour for our work to be commended by our industry peers.

After winning the 2012 Australian Event Award for Best Achievement in Design, Look or Theming for "City Life" at Vivid, we're proud to announce our nomination as a finalist in the same category at this year's awards for our work on White Night Melbourne.

The Adelaide Festival Centre turns 40 this month, and to mark this milestone event The Electric Canvas is projecting a series of beautiful and iconic images onto the entertainment centre's distinctive rooftop shells.

The new Paramount Pictures film, "Star Trek: Into Darkness" held its Australian premiere here in Sydney. Visual Event Management produced the event, bringing together Hollywood stars, red carpet and The Electric Canvas to create a memorable evening for the film's cast and fans alike.

The inaugural White Night Melbourne event held on Saturday 23rd February has been hailed as major success with more than 200,000 people on the streets of Melbourne for the all night festival. The Electric Canvas was the principal production partner for the event and provided a large footprint of building projections over two major precincts.

If you were in Melbourne before Christmas, we hope you made your way over to Melbourne Town Hall to experience our most ambitious 3D mapping project to date. Click below to read more and see the video highlights!

Perth's new commercial precinct, Brookfield Place, was launched with the help of The Electric Canvas in September of this year. Three months on, we returned with nightly projections onto the facades of five of the development's heritage buildings along St Georges Terrace.

The Electric Canvas presents "City Life" as part of Vivid Sydney. Using the ornate architecture of Customs House as a skeleton, an elaborate city within a city is created. As the morning sun rises, the buildings, streets, overpasses and infrastructure emerge out of Customs House, like an organism coming to life. Hundreds of people, cars, buses and trains traverse the city. Mercurial weather patterns, traffic lights flashing, horns honking, the everyday hustle and bustle.

Using 3D mapping techniques we created an animated montage of team colours, action packed player imagery and an extreme treatment of the 2012 TV ad campaign, all of which were emblazoned across the façade of the new building. “Welcome to Our House” was a resounding crowd pleaser.

Sydney’s Chinese New Year celebrations get bigger and brighter each year. This years’ Twilight Parade celebrated the Year of the Dragon with almost 3000 performers parading through the city and on to Chinatown. An estimated crowd of 100,000 enthusiastic people lined the route.

The Electric Canvas is thrilled to announce it has been appointed by the Indonesia South East Asian Games Organising Committee (INASOC) to provide projection services for Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 26th SEA Games in Palembang Indonesia.

By clever and often witty mixing of music, sound and 3D projection mapping, Hammer Hall and the State Theatre came to life in a ‘Cacophony’ of sound and rich visuals for two weeks during the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

The Electric Canvas continued it’s support of Vivid Live by providing the seamless technical delivery of the projections on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House.

French design collective Superbien were the artists commissioned to create this years projections. ‘La Macula’ was an artwork that played across the iconic architecture in humorous and psychedelic electropop explosion of light.

The Electric Canvas and our project partners, Big Picture, were engaged by the Sydney Opera House to provide high power projections for Luminous, curated by Brian Eno, part of the Vivid Sydney Festival and SmartLight Sydney.

Paintings selected from the artist's significant body of work were displayed in a continuously changing interaction that did not repeat over the course of the 21 day installation.

At Circular Quay, The Electric Canvas used an array of fourteen high powered data projectors from a distance of 450m. The Digital projections were controlled by the OnlyView timeline based media system that took care of all scaling and programming.

The Electric Canvas will stage projections onto the Auckland Town Hall as part of the launch ot Telecom NZ new XT network.

Fantasy transformations will bring the exterior of the Auckland Town Hall to life with a large scale multimedia production using synchronized architectural and high powered digital projections. From a licorice house filled with people dancing and partying to a windswept Cape complete with lighthouse and crashing waves, the installation is set to mesmerise from 15th to 19th May.